Slide buckle



June 1931. J. H. DOMKEE 1,810,647

' SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Dec. 13. 1929 JEN-IN H DEIIIVIKEE ATTy Patented June 16, 1931 UNITED stares aerate-'2" QEPI JOHN H. DOMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN,

- CONN ECTICUT CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF SLIDE BUCKLE Application filed December 13', 192e, {seri l Lia-413,8 3.

This invention relates to slide buckles employed for adjusting the length of straps, webbing, and the like, upon which the buckle is mounted, the adjustment being maintained thereby Without any penetration into the material, and the objects of the invention are to providean entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle; to provide a slide buckle that is reversible; to provide a slide buckle I having one or more intermediate bars extending from the secured side with angular formation projecting out of the plane of the buckle, and of which the metal surfaces of both ends are secured to metal surfaces of the buckle in permanent intimate union. With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular'form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawings, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what may hereinafter be claimed.

This invention is an improvement upon the structure illustrated, set forth, and claimed, in an application filed by me February 18, 1929, Serial Number 340,247. In that application the slide buckle therein disclosed comprised a' pair of loops connected at one side and free at the opposite side. and there.- fore subjecting the loops to accidental or forced separation. The improvement now" disclosed comprises securing the metal engaging surfaces of the loops in permanent intimate union as by welding, brazing, or soldering. a

The character of the improvement may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the drawings in which the Fig ure-l is an elevation of the buckle; the Fig ure 2 is an end. view thereof; and the Figure 3 is a cross-section of the buckle on the line 83 of the Figure 1. 1 Referring more particularly to the drawings,the bucklemay be, made in the form ofja rectangular WlI'Q-TIELIHB having ,one or more lfixed intermediate bars dividing the frame into apair of loops arranged in a common pla-ne,'fthe bar or-ba-rs having angular for- "mation's projecting out of the plane of the loops, and, as made from asingle piece of wire, the pair of loops land 2, being formed froma middle'portion of the piece of wire,

are integrally connected by the side-bar 3 at one side of the loops and, pending the completion oflthe process of manufacture, the loops are free one fromthe other at the oppo siteside, the loops 1 and 2 and the side-bar 3 being arranged in a commonplane and the metal engagingsurfaces of the loops 1 and 2 be ng'secured in permanent intimate un on by means of weldlng, brazing, or soldermg.

-'The fixed intermediate bars 4 and 5 extend in the plane of the loops and integrally from, thetemporarily freesid e of theloops across the buckle frame in angularformationsprojecting out of the plane ofthe loops, each bar being immediately bent, as at .6 and-7, in

opposite directions out of the plane of the loops, and angularly bent and returned, as at 8and 9,relativelyflcrossed,asvat v10, angularly rebent and returned, as, at llva'nd 12, and recrossed, as at 13,'and so on throughout the length of the bars t and 5 thereby alternately providing spaced peaked humps, as

for instance at 8 and 11, projecting in one and the same direction out of the plane of the loops, and as at 9 and 12, projecting out of the plane of the loops in one and the same direction opposite to that of the humps 8 and 11, as best illustrated by the Figure 3. The metal surfaces of lOOlillxbEtI' extremities are secured intimate union with the metal surface of a' middle portion of the side-bar 3 by means of welding, brazing, or soldering, to provide an entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle of which the distance of the projections out ofthe plane of the buckle in one direction equals the distance of the projections out of he buckle plane in the opposite direction, the buckle therefore being reversible in use in Within the plane of the loops in permanent,

that the bucklemay be turned around from the position illustrated by the Figure 1 so that'- the upper bar 14 may be in the position of the lower bar 15, and the loWer bar 15 may assume the position of the upper bar 14, or so that the side-bar 3 and the opposite side of the loops may each occupy the position of the other. The metal union of the loops, as at 16, and of both bar extremities with the side bar, as at 17, provide the novel feature of the invention.

I claim:

1. A slide buckle vcomprising a pair of Wire loops arranged in a common plane and integrally connected at one side and 'the engaging metal surfaces of the loops being connectedly secured in permanent intimate union at the opposite side, and intermediate bars extending integrally from the secured side, each bar immediately being bent in op- Eosite directions out of said plane, and each ar being angularly bent and returned, relatively crossed, angularly rebent and returned and recrossed, repeatedly, each bar thus providing spaced peaked humps extending out of the said plane in both directions, and both bars co-operating to alternately provide spaced peaked humps extending out of the said plane in both directions, and the metal surfaces of both bar extremities being secured Within said plane in permanent intimate union with the metal surface of the integrally connected side.

2. A slide buckle comprising a pair of Wire loops arranged in a common plane and integrally connected at one side and the engaging metal surfaces of the loops secured in permanent intimate union at the opposite side;

and intermediate bars in planes relatively parallel and extending integrally from the secured side to the connected side and having angular formations projecting in planes perpendicular to and out of the plane of the loops, the metal surfaces of the bar extremit1es being secured Within said plane in per- 'manent intimate union with the metal surface of the connected side.

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

